Artificial intelligence, big data, automation and other digital trends are shaping humankind’s future. Increasingly, people’s employment opportunities are likely to depend on higher education and advanced skills. The established pattern of newly industrialising countries first specialiing in low-wage production and than gradually adding ever more value may be becoming unviable. Policymakers must do two things: adapt to technological change and shape that change.

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contributed to D+C/E+Z in autumn 2018 as co-founder and director of Tandem Research, a Goa-based, multi-disciplinary research collective which specialises in policy advice on technology, society and sustainability.

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last contributed to D+C/E+Z in winter of 2018/2019 as a Kenyan journalist, editor and fact-checker. He is currently a Chevening Scholar studying Media and Development at the University of Westminster in London.